Spotting recovery scams
Losing an account makes you a target for a second scam.
Stuck? Hand it to a recovery team and skip the guesswork.
We'll handle it for youLosing an account puts you in a hurry, and scammers know it. These are the signs.
- 🚩 Asks for your password or login codes
- 🚩 Found you through a comment or DM after you posted about being hacked
- 🚩 Calls themselves a "hacker" or "Meta insider"
- 🚩 Wants crypto or gift cards
- 🚩 Promises to "hack back" the account
- 🚩 No real website, no business email, no refund terms
What a legitimate service looks like
- Works only through Meta's official channels
- Never needs your password
- Has a public site, a business email and written refund terms
That's the standard UnbanPro holds itself to, with a 100% refund if we can't get your account back. Also see fake Meta messages.
How the scam plays out
- You post "my account was hacked" or comment on a recovery thread.
- Within minutes, "hackers" reply or DM you with success screenshots.
- They ask for an upfront fee in crypto, and then a second "unlock" fee.
- Sometimes they also take your email password and steal more accounts.
Questions people ask
Are all recovery services scams?
No. Legitimate ones have a real website, a business email, written refund terms and never ask for your password.
More recovery guides
- Instagram hacked: the recovery checklist
- Facebook hacked: the recovery checklist
- Disabled, suspended, locked or hacked? How to tell
- No email, no phone: the recovery route
- Someone's in your account right now
- Username changed or account deleted
- Lock it down after recovery
- Two-factor authentication, done right
- Fake Meta messages: how accounts get stolen
- Warn your followers
- Business assets after a hack
- WhatsApp hijacked: getting it back
- Your account emergency kit
- Prevention checklist
- Recovery FAQ
- Getting past "Confirm you're human"
- Getting the video selfie accepted
- Security code not arriving
- The hacker turned on two-factor
- Hacked, then disabled
- Facebook "Your account has been locked"
- Unknown account in your Accounts Center
- SIM swap: when your number is the weak spot
- Suspicious login alerts
- Recover your email first